Day: October 22, 2020

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Senate Judiciary Committee approves Judge Barrett’s nomination to SC, Democrats boycott

10:51 pm October 22, 2020

Washington: The powerful Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday confirmed the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court with the opposition Democrats boycotting the voting process. All 12 Republicans on the committee voted to advance the nomination, while all 10 Democrats boycotted the vote. Democratic senators argue that Republicans should not push through a confirmation […]

Air quality ‘very poor’ in Ghaziabad, Noida, Faridabad; Gurgaon relatively better

10:47 pm October 22, 2020

Noida: The air quality remained “very poor” in large parts of Faridabad, Gautam Buddh Nagar and Ghaziabad while it was relatively better in Gurgaon in the National Capital Region on Thursday, according to a government agency. There was heavy concentration of PM 2.5 and PM 10 pollutants in the air of the four immediate neighbouring districts of Delhi, according to the […]

Thief shoots himself dead after opening fire at police

Punjab: Man kills wife, two minor children before turning gun on himself

10:44 pm October 22, 2020

Bathinda: A 42-year-old man allegedly shot dead his wife and two children before killing himself in Bathinda district of Punjab, police said on Thursday. Devinder Garg shot his wife Meena Garg, son Aarush Garg (14) and daughter Muskaan (10) with a pistol, they said. Thereafter, he ended his life. The deceased man had borrowed huge […]

UP: Returning from Navratri event, 19-year-old woman gang-raped

10:35 pm October 22, 2020

Mahoba: A 19-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by three men after attending a Navratri event in Panwadi area of Uttar Pradesh’s Mahoba district, police said on Thursday. The incident took place on Wednesday night when the teenager was returning home after attending an aarti of Goddess Durga for the nine-day festival and was abducted and […]

Reserve Bank bars payment system operators from launching new QR codes

10:33 pm October 22, 2020

New Delhi: The Reserve Bank on Thursday barred Payment System Operators (PSOs) from launching any new proprietary QR code for payment transactions. Currently, there are two interoperable QR codes — UPI QR and Bharat QR. QR codes are two-dimensional machine-readable barcodes, which are increasingly used to facilitate mobile payments at the point-of-sale. QR codes can store a large amount of information. The decision to continue […]